Sentences with phrase «of black pastors»

As CNN reported, a coalition of Black pastors, representing various denominations, has emerged to challenge President Obama's pro-gay policies.

The reaction of black pastors to the president's support for gay marriage has been as varied as their congregations, ranging from condemnation to congratulations.

I'm encouraged by the support of these black pastors for traditional marriage.

One can get a sense of the black pastor's role by surveying the activities of a black urban pastor like the late J. Pius Barbour.

Here the pastoral care of the black pastor (or the pastor of black persons) becomes the instrument for releasing the power to endure suffering, alienation, rejection and abuse within a context of understanding that goes beyond resignation but stops short of irrational rage.

Not exact matches

Cleveland pastor Darrell Scott, one of the president's most prominent black allies, says the idea of bringing in artists and athletes to hash out their differences with Trump has gotten a boost from last week's lovefest between the president and Kanye West.

The above Black pastors should be ashmaed of themselves, after all the years spent fighting for African american equality alll we are looking for is a bit of equality ourselves.

Who Cares what any of these dudes (black pastors) think?

Black pastors are accepting of Barrack Hussein Obama's acceptance of gay marriage because he is bBlack pastors are accepting of Barrack Hussein Obama's acceptance of gay marriage because he is blackblack.

All my White Power buddies, this pastor is gone past our norms of just burning the crosses in the black neighbourhoods, I have never seen muslims burn any religions holy books or call any other religion derogatory names.

E.g. Ted Haggard, pastor of a huge charismatic church in Colorado... instead of getting therapy and accepting his sexuality gets caught in a black hole of shame and is found slipping off most weekends to cheat on his wife, do meth, and have sex with a male prostitute.

Religion News Service: Black pastors move to counter new voter ID laws African - American clergy are joining forces with civil rights groups to push for increased voter registration ahead of the November election, spurred on by new voter laws they say restrict opportunities for minorities to enter the voting booth.

Yeah... the Black Pastors have really come done on the side of truth and justice on this one.

What if our children were accustomed to seeing black pastors of majority white churches, and vice-versa?

Religion News Service: Survey: Most Southern Baptist pastors favor black denominational leader A majority of Southern Baptist pastors surveyed said they think it would be good for the nation's largest Protestant denomination to have an African - American leader.

From the Speed Read: Religion News Service: Survey: Most Southern Baptist pastors favor black denominational leader A majority of Southern Baptist pastors surveyed said they think it would be good for the nation's largest Protestant denomination to have an African - American leader.

Barack Obama was troubled by Jeremiah Wright, his pastor for twenty years and an unapologetic proponent of black liberation theology.

Barbour, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Chester, Pennsylvania, from 1933 to 1974 and mentor to Martin Luther King, Jr., during the latter's Crozer Seminary years, amassed such influence over the years that it is said no decision affecting blacks in Chester was made without his input.

Black pastors start an anti-Obama campaign over one issue that has no bearing on their well being or their way of life.

On the first Sunday of the new urban campus, the white male pastor who had zero urban ministry experience, brashly declared to the mostly black audience, «This ain't your grandmomma's church.»

King Obama has lost support of the Evangelicals, the Catholics, and now Black pastors... He has indeed unified his opposition!

I know that demons can inhabit a human, for I took a lady to church to see a pastor, to take it out of her, I sat there while the pastor prayed over her, finally a black ghostly type, with a person's body, came out of her feet and left the room.

Considering that almost 70 % of black children born in this country are born out of wedlock, maybe these black pastors should worry about straight couples first.

SAVANNAH, Georgia (CNN)-- The Food Network announced Friday that it will not renew the contract of Paula Deen after she admitted using a racial epithet — but a black pastor who is friends with the celebrity chef said she «can't be a racist.»

I commend the pastor for his moral conviction but the majority of blacks are incapable of voting on any other issue but race... its genetic... Obama could say he is an ax murderer and they still will find a way to justify their vote for him... another words Obama sees the black vote as in the bag and he is right... most of them are incapable of critical thinkng

The pastor espoused a black liberation theology that equates Jesus» life and death with the plight of those who Wright saw as disenfranchised, from African - Americans to Palestinians.

So many black pastors need to take care of their own home instead of criticizing the president.

Bufkin portrayed the move to deny the black couple a chance to marry in the church as the work of a small minority whom he called «radicals» and who he said made mostly anonymous calls to their pastor to complain about the black couple's wedding.

Scorsese concludes his film with a simple message in white text on a black background, «For the Japanese Christians and their pastors,» followed by the Jesuit motto: AMDG, ad maiorem Dei gloriam, for the greater glory of God.

(Characteristically, Pastor Albert B. Cleage, Jr., of Detroit, one of the leading spokesmen for black power in the U.S.A., declared that violence is redemptive.

Social justice causes, candles in worship services, v - necks and big neck tattoos on worship leaders, screenings of PT Anderson films at church, heavy use of Helvetica font in church bulletins, bald pastors who always wear black clothes from Banana Republic, beer at church barbecues, a renewed interest in corporately reading ancient creeds or prayers, Nooma videos, Sufjan Stevens and everything related to Sufjan Stevens.

Not too many years later, when I was pastor of a black parish in Brooklyn, I came to know Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, and we formed a fast friendship, first in shared activism against the Vietnam War and later in countless hours of intense theological and philosophical conversation» usually in his smoke - filled office (he with his cigar and I with my pipe) high in the tower of Jewish Theological Seminary up on Morningside Heights.

For example, black pastors question how the Society for the Study of Black Religion really can understand the religion of blacks when absent from this group are black preachers who minister to those who are unemployed, underemployed, addicted to alcohol and drugs, illiterate and apathblack pastors question how the Society for the Study of Black Religion really can understand the religion of blacks when absent from this group are black preachers who minister to those who are unemployed, underemployed, addicted to alcohol and drugs, illiterate and apathBlack Religion really can understand the religion of blacks when absent from this group are black preachers who minister to those who are unemployed, underemployed, addicted to alcohol and drugs, illiterate and apathblack preachers who minister to those who are unemployed, underemployed, addicted to alcohol and drugs, illiterate and apathetic.

Years ago, when I was pastor of a black parish in Brooklyn, I frequently compared such research to the number of people who claimed to be members of our parish, St. John the Evangelist.

Black pastors should put this into action by developing programs and policies to transform the status of the poor.

Dharius Daniels, a board member of the National Association of Evangelicals and pastor of the predominantly black Kingdom Church in Ewing, N.J., says the case was «a mirror that could show the country not just how much or how little we've progressed, but where — in terms of now, in terms of this point in history — our efforts and our focus and our attention needs to be.»

Set parallel in time, place and theme to Gilead, her prizewinning novel of 2004, Marilynne Robinson's new novel, Home, takes the reader inside the home of retired Presbyterian pastor Robert Boughton for another perspective on Jack Boughton, the black sheep of the family, who left Gilead as a young man after fathering a child.

Meanwhile, no one is confirming the main name buzzing out there - Rev. Suzan Johnson Cook, a very prominent New York City pastor with a powerful resume, including: being past president of the conference representing all historically black denominations, developing some faith - related policy for President Clinton, former chaplain of the New York City police department, faculty member at Harvard.

It has been my ongoing involvement — as a pastor serving first a black congregation, then a Hispanic one, and now a largely West Indian and Haitian congregation — with the lives of inner - city families that has forced me to change the direction of my efforts as a public official.

I do nt know whats worse the fact that a white man could be accused of the same thing this man is accused of and we as blacks would be screaming bloody murder or the fact that he marched against gay marriages, and took personal shots at other pastor and then he gets exposed 4 what he really is and that ironically is everything he preached and marched against sad

The Planned Parenthood Federation of America has perpetuated a «genocide on the black community,» says a group of African - American pastors who claimed Thursday the birth control and abortion provider has had a racist agenda since its beginnings in 1921.

«Black folks have very short memories,» said Rev. Tim McDonald, senior pastor of First Iconium Baptist Church in Atlanta.

Would I have disobeyed the instructions of my pastor and walked alongside black protestors in Birmingham?

I'm black and my wife is white... we were denied marriage (maybe discouraged is a better choice of words) in a rural all white church because the pastor basically knew his congregation would have a problem with it, though he did not.

Black Christian academics and pastors are well aware of the attraction of Islam for African - Americans, but many reject the idea that it represents a threat to Christianity.

This would be a good example of Blacks (only these Pastors) biting off their nose to spite their face.

Go black Pastors, find the hearts of the communities and send your seasoned veterans of racial success and your young ambassadors to the shores of the communities.

David Goatley, a black Baptist scholar - pastor who heads the Lott Carey Foreign Mission Convention in Washington, D.C., said the SBC seems willing to embrace an African American supportive of the denomination's current «theological, political, and social direction.»

Bishop Harry Jackson, pastor of a large, charismatic congregation in Maryland, is one of the leading voices in black religious conservatives.

Who he is: Jackson, senior pastor at Hope Christian Church in Maryland, is the presiding bishop of the International Communion of Evangelical Churches (ICEC) and host of the radio show The Truth in Black and White.